Swell Gallery

Here’s an indisputable, non-alternative fact: January was a damn fine month for East Coast surf (check out this Winter Storm Helena gallery and this Nor’easter gallery if you don’t believe us). After looking through a few...

For a major storm arriving in the middle of January, this week’s nor’easter wasn’t nearly as wintry as expected. Yes, strong winds hammered the region — 40-50 mph in Boston and on Cape Cod, 63 mph gusts recorded in...

Winter Storm Helena put a hurting on the East Coast this weekend: six people killed, nearly two feet of snow in some spots in New England, more than 1,200 car crashes in North Carolina and Virginia alone, icy road conditions from...

At the beginning of December, we made a foolish claim with our Fall’s Last Call Swell Gallery. We say “foolish” because, every single day since we posted that collection of photos, somewhere on the East Coast has gone...

Over the last few weeks, two unlikely surf zones have been unusually consistent: the Florida Panhandle and the Great Lakes. Every cold front that pushes across the Midwest has brought significant swell energy to these two typically...

No matter your political persuasion, it’s fair to say that the last week, the last month, and the last year have been brutal in the United States. The 2016 presidential campaign will go down as the most endlessly negative,...

The entire East Coast lived on pins and needles for a full week thanks to Hurricane Matthew, leading many of us to miss the formation of Hurricane Nicole to the northeast of Matthew. As that Categry 3/4 storm completed its meandering,...

The waves from Winter Storm Mars started showing up in Florida on Sunday, just before the Super Bowl kicked off and those damn Denver Broncos took down our East Coast Carolina Panthers. But with record-breaking swell energy lighting up all...